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Wedded Life In The Upper Ranks Consists Of Two Tales,

both of great pretension, but of very small power. Of the many fashion- able novels we rave lately read, this is, if not the one most desti- tute of talent, certainly the most......

Of M . Crie's Life Of John Knox, We Need Say No

more than that the fifth edition has just made its appearance. We wish that it had been in the size and shape and at the price of the " Family Library." Every one knows that the......

Messrs. Treuttel And Wurtz Have Commenced A "family,...

French Classics." The dramatic series is commenced. with two volumes of 167d/ire. They are printed in Paris, and pre- sent no resemblance to our different series under the same......

Mr. Landor Has Thought Proper To Republish Poems, Which,...

the name of Gebir and other appellations, have long been before the public. They never attracted much attention ; and though we have found lovers and students of poetry who have......

The Arcana Of Art And Science Is The Fourth Volume

of a little- work of the most useful and entertaining description. It is brim- ful of all the new facts that have shown themselves above ground, in the course of the year. Every......

The Working Man's Companion Is, In Fact, A Very Well

com- piled and amusing children's book : we do not see how it will fall in 'with the tastes and wants of the " working man," whose reliefs are seldom of a literary or scientific......

Mr. Valpy Has Commenced His " Epitome Of English Litera-

ture," which is to consist of a series of abridgments o fall the classical works in the language. The idea is an excellent one ; and if the execution correspond with the......

We Perceive With Salifaction, That The English Reader Is Now

presented with a luminous view of Vegetable Physiology, after the natural methol of JUSSIEU, in M`GILLivaAv's translation of RICHARD'S b.:Le/Jul/is qf Botany. This excellent......